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Premature scaling can kill your business.

Berkonomics

This form of thinking has been unusually true during the current rise of social media platforms, where market share became the primary goal of a company, with revenues and profitability to follow later. Typically, when you bring a VC onboard, you increase the risk, the reward, and the definition of the size for a successful exit.

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Ghost appears with new funding, marketplace to match buyers with unsold products

TechCrunch LA

They’ve also had suppliers sell perishable goods as well — a vendor sold 80,000 dates on the platform a month ago. “We’re million in new funding for its predictive inventory recommendation platform, joining other similar companies, including Zippedi and Inventa. Ghost is not alone in developing technology focused on inventory.

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GrubMarket raises $60M as food delivery stays center stage

TechCrunch LA

GrubMarket , which provides a B2C platform for consumers to order produce and other food and home items for delivery, and a B2B service where it supplies grocery stores, meal-kit companies and other food tech startups with products that they resell, is today announcing that it has raised $60 million in a Series D round of funding.

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Reflections on 2018: Clinton Foy, CrossCut Ventures

socalTECH

It's as important as eating and sleeping for me and I definitely feel the difference in focus, presence and in my relationships. This year, we focused on diversifying and strengthening our team by recruiting Maureen Klewicki as an investor and senior associate, and Nick Kim as our head of platform. That was a lame excuse.

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8 Tips For Startups Preparing For The Media Spotlight

Startup Professionals Musings

Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media. On the social media side, the stakes are just as great.

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Always Keep On Top Of Your To Due List with DueToDos [Invites]

Tech Zulu Event

At its release, email was heralded as the best thing since the facsimile aka the fax machine. Well email may be the savior of the Western world’s time, but like all great inventions of the last century, it could use a little help. It is definitely built for users who need information quickly and at a glance.

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How the myth of the ‘girlboss’ harms emerging women in tech

TechCrunch LA

“I truly believe the ‘girlboss’ term was created to celebrate an emerging wave of female leaders – which is still rare in business, and was even rarer around 10 years ago when the phrase was popularized,” Green told TechCrunch in an email. . There definitely have been, but the room to recover is completely limited.”.

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